as good as

English

Adverb

as good as (not comparable)

almost, virtually, practically; tantamount to
Sending the soldiers out into that blizzard was as good as murdering them!
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
  They who counsel ye to such a suppressing, do as good as bid ye suppress yourselves.

Translations

almost completely

Dutch: zo goed als
Finnish: käytännössä (fi)
French: déjà (fr), pratiquement (fr), presque (fr)
German: so gut wie (de)

Portuguese: praticamente
Russian: всё равно́ что (vsjó ravnó što), почти́ (что) (ru) (počtí (što)), факти́чески (ru) (faktíčeski), практи́чески (ru) (praktíčeski)
Swedish: så gott som (sv)

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